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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
Poor Farmer.

GAS there is nothing for me to do at
home l will 60 to town and see what
is going on" says the poor farmer.
No other ever uses such language. It
is poor farmer, indeed, who cannot
always find something to do at home.
Such a one will never find that farm
ing pays. He had rather sit on dry
goods boxes at the store, and "bot-
tom chairs" at some hotel or saloon,
than remain at home about his bust
ness. He is naturally indolent, men,
tally and physically. Besides, he is
mentally blind or he would always be
able to see something to be done at
home, no matter what the weather
may be; and he would also see that
loatine and sitting around in the village
could never make Il successful farmer.
II there is nothing to do at the
barn, in the corn house, or in the STA
BILE, he can pretty generally find some
thing to do in the house.. Probably
the cellar or the stuff stored in it de-
mands his attention.; and there is his
wife, drudging from daylight until
bed time, and perhaps past the time
when she ought to be in bed-he can
always do something to help her out,
and she will be very grateful for a lit
tie aid, If it is nothing more than peel
ing q mess OF potatoes or rocking the
cradle. We have no patience with the
man who can find nothing to do at
home. He is failure, a miserable
failure. He brings suffering to all con-
nected with him, and everything alive
around him suffers from his neglect.
The intelligent, competent farmer new
err goes to town unless he has business
there, and when his business is done,
he goes home and finds something to
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
Care For Group.

In membraneous Group Stacked lime
is good. Put a piece of lime in a ves-
eel and slack with hot water and let
the child inhale the steam. If the
child will not bear to be near the
lime, keep it in the room until the
whole air is full of steam. The best
plan Is to put a blanket over the YES
sci holding the lime, and over the
child, some grown person holding the
child 80 as to regulate the steam, and
let the steam pass off over the mouth.
Repeat the stacking until the men,
brane softens or is coughed up. If it
is coughed up, repeat the treatment
in three hours for about TWO hours
as the membrane is likely to form
again in that time. If it only softens,
continue until the child coughs of all
the mucous. My child was 80 bad
that the doctors gave no hope but
told me to try lime. l began st s
p. m. and never stopped until 10 !. m.
next day and then did it three times
q day and all night for q week. It
was a work but my child is alive and
we'll to-day. He was very weak being
then sick with coneestive measles,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

The socialists OF Chicago propose if
possible to get possession of the gov
eminent OF that city, and, strange as
1t may seem, it is feared that they
may be able to do it. In consequence,
the antl-socialist sentiment OF the city
talks OF combining or Robert T. Lin
coin for mayor, who would doubtless
make as strong q run as any other
man, but it is not known that Mr.
Lincoln would accept. 1t seems
strange to read that one OF the lare-
est cities OF the country is dangerous
~ near anarchy, and it cannot be be-
ieved.
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Then Helen jest for meannsss says:
'Rzry; l s'pose you amt ~illin' to
have ypdr fav'rits sister 20 down eli:
lar with you and catch her death Of
cold?' But Mary, who hez been show
in Hiram Peabody the photograph
alhumsfor more'n an hour, comes TO
the rescue an makes Laura take tho
candle, an she shows Laura how I'd
hold it soft won't 90 out:
''The cellar is warm an dark. There
are cobwebs all between the rafters,
an everywhere else, except on tho
shelves where mother keeps the bit:
ter an. eggs; an other things that
would freeze in the but'try up stairs.
The apples are in bar'ls up against
the wall, near the potater bin. How
fresh an sweet they smell! Laura
thinks she sees a mouse an she tren,-
lles an wants to jump up on the pork
bari, but I tell her that there
shan't no mouse hurt her while I'm
'roond-an' l mean it too, for the
sight O Laura a-tremblin' makes me
as strong as one Of fathers steers.
What kind OF apples do you like best
Ezry" asks Laura; 'russets or gteen-
ms or crow eggs or bellAower or bald.
wins or pippins? Il like the bald.
wins best, says I, COZ they've
got red cheeks just like yours"
why, Ezry Thompson! how you
ashamed OF YOURSELF But when get
the dish filled up with apples there
amt a baldwin in all the lot that cat,
compare with the bright red of La,1.
ta's cheeks. An Laura knows it. too,
an she sees the mouse agin. an
screams, and then the candle goes out
and we are in a dreadful stew. But I,
benz almost a man, contrive to bear
up under it, and KNOWN she is an or.
phan, comfort an encourage Laura
the best ] know how, and we, are al
most upstairs when mother comes to
the door and wants to know what has
KEEP us SO long. Just As if mother
doesn't know! Of course she does; an
when mother kisses Laura good-by
that night there is in the act tender.
ness that speaks more sweetly than
even mothers words.
1T is SO like MOTHER" unused Ezra;
$50 like her with her gentleness an
clinging' love. Hers is the sweetest
picture of all, and hers the best love. "
Dream on, Ezra; dream of the old
home with it's dear ones, its holy in.
tiunces and It's precious inspiration
mother. Dream on in the far away
freight, and as the angel hand OF
memory unfolds these sacred visions,
with thee and them shall abide, like a
divine comforter, the spirit of thanks.
giving.
EUGENE FIELD.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

TWAS not the only and genuine Itch
borne claimant who was arrested in
New York the other day for fraud up-
on the pension Office. He is an i'm
poster, of course, but not the impos-
tor who was imprisoned in England
Tor ten years for fraud and perjury in
trying to possess himself OF the Itch.
borne estates. That person.. Robert
Charles Tichborne, as he calls himself
whose true name has been proved to
De Arthur Orion, is in New York, ill
and poor, but has made no claim for
military pension.
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follows: Use dry, fine salt: plaza :.

follows: Use dry. fine salt; place .
layer on the bottom of q key deen
enough to set the eggs on the laree
ends, side by side; then cover with
salt. thus alternately putting in a
layer Of eggs and alayer of salt. The
salt being dry runs all about the egg,
and, if kept in q dry cellar, lowers
their temperature. When the key is
full, put on the lid tightly. This will
keep eggs for six months, which secur-
es them for use an entire winter, or
carries them from q dull to q high
market. It is the cheapest and best
method, and the eggs are fresh and as
good, for all purposes but hatching.-
Country Home.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

Tho red man is an expensive luxury.
Over $24, 600, 900 was expended upon
him last year. Thereport of tho Sec
ond auditor shows that $l7,676, 48s
was drawn out of the treasury on
requsltions from the secretary of war,
and SO, 1925, 523 on those from the
secretary of the interior. Part ofthis
was employed in restraining the blood
thirsty instincts of the red man, part
IN gratifying his abnormal appetite.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

It is scarcely necessary, nowadays,
says the Boston Record, to warn
one against heavy furniture in bed
rooms. Householders have como to
understand the sanitary Importance
ofperfect cleanliness in q sleeping room.
and that this cannot be secured with
furniture that may not be moved east
ly and often. But people in the aver
age home are slower to learn to do
away with wooden hangings and wool
en- carpets in bedrooms. Blankets
the year round excepted, there is no
need of any WOODEN, dust-lodging fibre
in chamber. Curtains and cushions
are much more easily cared for when
made of colt ons, and for eight months
in the year straw mating is the best
coveringfor q bedroom floor Even in
winter two or three rugs which may be
often shaken out of doors, are enough
to take off the chill look of the straw.
And this way Of managing has the ad>
vantage of cheapness as we'll as OF
healthfulness and comfort.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
Mothers and Daurhters.

Ayoung girl, beautiful and attrac
tive, while engaged to be married to
an honest, honorable gentleman a few
years ago, became entangled in the
tolls OF q scapegrace, who wished to
marry her sorely for her fortune. The
girl was giddy, weak and unable to free
| herself
"Why doyou not 60 to your moth.
err" asked friend. "1t is she who
should protect you from such a vii.
lian."
"Mother is at the head of two OF
three charitable organizations" was
the reply. "she has too many found
Iings and emirgrants and ragged
schools to care for to attend to nv
love AFFAIRS"
Her mother knew othing of the mat
ter until she broke her engagement and
married the man whom she feared even
before marriage, who treated her with
cruelty and forced her to leave him in
a year, a broken hearted woman.
Like too many American girls, she was
left to choose her own husband with.
out the help or advice Of any friend.
Now it is right for q mother to take
part in organized charities, and to care
tor foundlings, emigrants, or any 9TH
er OF Gods needy creatures, provid.
ed she does not neglect those children
whom He has put especially in her
charge. The duty of a mother to her
girls does not end when she has fed,
clothed and educated them.
One OF the most womanly women in
the court of Queen Victoria, herself
middle-aged, presented friend to her
aged mother with the tender words,
"She is not only my mother, but my
most intimate friend"
| How many Of the girl.readers of the
Companion claim their mother as an
intimate friend? It is usually the
fault of the daughter if this loving com.
radeshiP does not exist.-Youthi
Companion,
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Farm and Household.


V011VbO . -. NVs~Os
In warfare with coarse weeds, and
especially with Canada thistles. .
most useful weapon will be found to
DO g broad, sharp-edeed chisel fitted
to the end Of q staff, such as q hoe
handle. This is used to thrust into
the ground 50 as to cut of the weed
few inches under the surface. Bur-
docks, golden rods, and all other per-
sistent weeds which come up among
the hoed crops after having been
plowed under are quickly and effect
lively subdued by this means.
Appointment Western ranchman who
herds large drove of cattle on tho
Larimie Plains and keeps troughs of
salt, replenished once q week, near the
watering-pla.es of his cattle, says:
salt is my safety-valve as against.
distemper. When keep salt con-
stantly before my cattle there never
develops a case of blackleg. In the
last twenty years have two or three
OF those years neglected to salt, and
every time I have done so have lost
cattle from blackleg, but have never
lost one the years that have sailed.
1t is q simple remedy, and not only
prevents the distemper, but gentles
and otherwise improves the cattle. A
Thousand head OF cattle will take 100
pounds of salt per week. It pays the
best OF any money that I invest.
A bride to prevent a COW from
sucking herself is made as follows: A
head stall is fitted with g. buckle and
strap or a ring on each side; a stout
surcingle is also fitted in the same
way. Atough rod of hickory or white
oak is fastened on each side of the
COW from the belt to the bride; this
makes it impossible for the COW to
reach the teats while it does not in
terfere with her feeding.
My hens make money for me out of
the wheat stubble. No machine can
be made to cut 50 carefully that all
grain will be saved. The hens find
this waste grain far easier than q man
can: 1t will pay to get enough wire
fencing to make g. portable coop and
move it about from one place to an
other. In this way the whole field
can be fed over. The hens will pick
up their own living, and the manure
will more than pay for the trouble
Cor. Rural New-Yorker.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28

United States Treasurer Jordan says
that the effect of the offer to prepay
interest on the public debt would be
TO distribute almost immediately
about $1o,ooO,o0o among about
2'OoO banks and individuals in every
section OF the country, and would, in
his opinion, be OF great advantage in
the moving Of crops and other branch.
es OF business. The secretary's action
ne said, was entirely for the benefit OF
the business interest. ,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
EUGENE FIELD.
Born to Good Luck.

baltlmore special to Chicago Tribune.
Governor Henry Lloyd, who the
other day married the belle of Cam
bridge and is now on his wedding tour,
is dubbed 'the luckiest man in Mary
land" He is only IS years old. Henry
Lloyd received a good, ordinary edu-
cation, taught school and studied law.
In 1883 he was practicing at the bar
in Cambridge and was making proba-
oily $500 a year-certainly not moro
than that. The Democrats nominated
him for the state senate He was
elected after hardly fought contest.
1t was the first office he held. He
went to Annapolis. The German men,
or regulars" wanted q president.
The more experienced senator's did
not want the place. Finally it was
offered to Henry Lloyd. He took it.
Fifteen months afterwards Governor
McLane was appointed minister to
France. Lloyd became governor.
Then the men who had refused the
senate presidency wished they had &C.
cepted it. Lloyd is the youngest ex-
SSNoAS0 Ou0 0VS1CC CtCI ut1Os Ou0 Oh
his ancestors occupied the chair he
now fills. His family is one of the old
est in the country and has always
taken an active part in politics. The
tamily's hospitality has been bound
less, and the governor once remarked
that the only heritage he received was
the govt. The marriage which took
place recently was g. genuine surprise.
Rumor had associated the young gov
ernOr's name with q half. dozen desir-
able society bellies, but his heart was
true to its first love. Three years
ago he met Miss Staplefort. She was
then a schoolgirl, gut unusually pretty
and bright. She is blonde, petite
in stature, slender and graceful, OF g.
romantic disposition and q good con.
versationalist.
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Letters Of Introduction.

If letters OF introduction are given
you to present youself. or family to
the notice of mutual acquaintance,
send them in an envelope with card
and address Enclosed in it.
It is much better to thus introduce
yourself to their notice than to call in
person, for by SO doing you may avoid
an unpleasant position. You are a
perfect stranger to the lady, and al.
though your name is mentioned by
your mutual friend, yet it will take a
few seconds for her to read it, while
you must stand, hat in hand, waiting
a reception which may not always be
a cordial one. For in these days of
agents OF all kinds, and it this tagging
age, people OF respectable appearance
will force themselves into your houses
and insist upon seeing some one of its
occupants, solely for the purpose of
obtaining money for themselves or
others, and therefore strangers are
looked upon with suspicion at their
entrance into a parlor, and while your
letter is being read, you must fall
somewhat under this suspicion.
Yet If the mutual friend possessed
the right to introduce you. the mo-
ment his and your name are compre-
hended you ought to receive g. cordial
welcome, but if he has been more kind
than wise, and the mistress is worldly
wise, the reception may not be q very
warm one. Make short call at that
time, and II, being gentleman, YOU
are requested to call again soon be
sure to to so.
Letters of introduction should nev-
er be sealed, but left open to BIO read
by the one who presents them, and to
be at once opened by the one who
reads.
They should be written upon the
best note paper obtainable, and the
envelope should match it exactly.
The handwriting should be made
very legible and the lines wide apart,
so as to be quickly read. An atten-
ton to these seeming triAes is not
only desirable, but reputable.
Ii friends send you a letter of intro
duction stating that intimate friends
OF theirs are going to reside near you,
and asking your kind attentions for
them, you should answer the letter at
once, and express your willingness to
accede to their wishes. To neglect to
do this would show you to he an i'll.
bred person, and would also be a
slight which would be deeply felt by
your friends.
1t may seem of little consequence to
you whether your letter of introduc-
ton is written on the best note paper
you possess or on the poorest; or
whether you call a day or two earlier
or later. upon a new conner; or whether
you are in the drawlng-room ready to
receive an expected visitor, or walk
ing III your garden, yet upon such
little things much may depend. They
are not imnlaterial, because your rep
utation for good breeding may be in
volved by them. OF course persons
may bring to you letters of introduce
ton with whom you cannot desire an
intimate acquaintance. If SO, you
should call. but it is not your poitive
obligation to invite them to dinner or
tea. Yet it is considered an exhibition
OF kindness on your part to do 80.
But do not give the Invitation with
an air of lit must be done, therefore
do it. Home Journal.
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Tho new lake tonnage in process of
construction amounts to over 49, 900
tons-in steamers and schooners.

Rev. David Swing wants an Ameri-
can University in Chicago-a sort of
an ideal college or system of colleges
and $1,000, 900 to start with from
"some man"-not yet discovered.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-28
Preserving Egg With Salt.

The prizes so far the past year for
preserved eggs have, whenever they
have competed, been awarded to
those preserved in salt, The method
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so, and believe l should have cried
myself if she hadn't said turkey"
'She never had many good things to
remember" said Uncle Jerry, thinking
OF their hard, orphaned life.
perhaps that is why she wanted
her children to be always happy"
suggested Aunt Esther.
Eyes, she said so once," continued
Lucy, picking apple seeds out of a
core: "and l think, Uncle Jerry, it you
had some little boys and girls. you'd
feel quite different about it. But I'm
your little girl this year; won't you do
it for me?" She was almost frighten-
ed as she looked up and met stern,
white face.
"1t's your bedtime now, Lucy" in
terrupted her aunt. well think it
over till morning." And Lucy was
gla1 to retire to the adjoining room,
wondering what she could hav said
to make Uncle Jerry look $3.50
dreadful!'
An hour later Jerry Winters broke
the silence, which was already bee ON
ing oppressive.
II suppose we must do something
~ Cuc CIlAAu WALL De uOHeb1CK.
Eyes, answered his wife.
Don't see how I can stop chopin
day, with that contract on my
hands, and Jake and Steve have both
begged of for Thanksgiving. wish
there were no such days. I suppose
nothing less than a turkey will satisfy
the child?"
mo; but we can we'll afford it. Who
is going to have our money after we
are gone? We may as we'll make the
child happy and have good time
once in our lives.'
"she might be happy anyhow. 1t
seems q waste to me, l must confess. -
"Well, Jerry, We never wasted very
much that way, and it strikes me that
It We had had more holidays and had
made the old farmhouse more con.
eanaal to = young lively spirit We
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last OF all, walnut8 with cider from
the Zib1ina Dickerson farm. tell you
there's a thanksgivin' dinner for We!
That's what we get in old Belchertown,
an that's the kind of livin' that
makes the Yankees so ALFRED good
an smart!
'"But. the best of ALL" said Ezra.
very softly to himself, ooh, yes, the
best scene in all tie pictur' is when
evenin' comes, when the lamps are lit
in the parlor. when the neighhors
come in, and when there is music an
singin' an games. An it's this part
o the pictur' that makes me home
sick now and fills my heart with q
l"ngin' | never had before-an' yet it
sort o mellows an comforts me, too.
Miss Serena Caldwell whose beau was
killed in the war, plays on the melo-
deon, and we all sing-all on us; men,
womenfolks, an children. Sam Mer-
rift is there. an he sings tenor song
about love. The women sort OF whisper
round that he's goin' to be married to
Palmer lady mex spring, an
think to myself I never heard better
singin' than Sans. Then we play
games-proverbs, buzz, clap-in-clap-
out, copenhagen, fox am geese, button
button-who s-got-the-b button, spin-the-
platter, go.to-Jerusalem, my-ship's-
come-in, and all the rest. The OF folks
play with the young folks just as nat
raj as can be. and we all laugh when
Deacon Hosea Cowles hez to measure
six yards of love ribbon with Miss
Hepsy Newton, and cut each yard with
a kiss; for the deacon hez been sort o.
pu.rin' round Miss Hepsy for goin' on
two years. Then, aft'r while, when
Mary an Helen bring in tho Co okies,
nutcakes, cider, an apples, moth
er says: Il don't b'lieve we're goin'
to hev enough apples to 60 round;
Ezry, l guess I'm have to get you
to 60 down cellar for some more. ,
Then I says: All right, mother, I'll 70,
providin' some one'll 20 along an
hold the candle An when l say this
look right at Laura an che bushes.
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nv OuA oAUGcS O1s our lceL 1cel as II
they were wood. Laura has lost her
tlppet; lend her mine and she kind o.
bushes. The old pond seems glad to
have us 60, and the fire-hangbird's
nest in the willer tree waves us good
ny. Laura promises to come over to
our house IN the evenin', and SO we
break up.
Seems now" continued Ezra mu-
slngly, 'seems now as if l could see ia
all at breakfast. The race on the pond
has made us hungry, and mother saws
she never knew anybody els,'s bows
that had such capac' ties as hers. Its
a Yankee thanksgivin' breakfast
sages an fried potatoes, an buckwheat
CAKES an slrup-maple strip, mind We,
ior father has his own sugar bush and
there was a big run o. sap last season.
Mother says 'Ezry an Amos. won't
you never get through eatin? Wewant
to clear of the table, for there's pies
to make, an nuts to crack, and laws
sakes alive! the turkeys got to be
stuffed yit!' Then how we all fly
round. Mother sends Helen up into
the attic to get squash while Mary's
maxim the pie-crust. Amos and j
crack the walnuts-they call 'em
hickory nuts out in this pesky country
OF sage brush and pasture land. The
walnuts are hard and it's all we can
DO to crack 'em. Ev'ry once n a while
one on EN- slips outer our fingers an
goes dancin' over the floor or flies into
the pan Helen is squeezin' pumpkin in.
TO tt rough the col'nder. Helen
says we're shif'less an GOOD
Tor nothin' but frivolin'; but moth,
er tells US how to crack the
walnuts SOS not to let 'em fly all over
the room, an SOS not to be all lam.
med to pieces like the walnuts was
down at the party at the Peasleys'
last winter. An now here comes Trv.
Ph'na Foster, with. her ginsham gown